Song for Alicia by Haley Heynderickx and Max García Conover

Pride Anthem (Molotov Cocktails & Bricks) by Garlic Bread & Roses

Heavy Foot by Mon Rovia

Push by Terrace Martin

Violet by Jeremy Messersmith

The Day by The Roots

Very Much Money by Open Mike Eagle

Broken Ladder by Lil Ugly Mane

Drive by El-P

Freebird II by Parquet Courts

History Lesson Pt. II by Minutemen

Megapunk by Ela Minus

Pack My Box by Patricia Taxxon

Wedding in a Wasteland by Parts and Labor

My Body Fell by Kasko Lunsford

Hold Each Other Up by Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer with Chao Tian

“American culture will not be mocked or corrupted without consequence,” Ogles said.

Fuck all the way off you fucking illiterate dipshit. The best parts of “American culture” are and always have been mocking evil puritanical shitheads like you who really just hate art in general and people you don’t own.

The newly released evidence is also part of a pattern. It is one of many examples of DHS immigration agents lying and providing false information to justify shootings and other uses of excessive force against US citizens and immigrants. These claims have collapsed again and again once DHS is forced to defend them in court.

They are also part of another very disturbing pattern - in this case, Pretti, and Good’s there was a) evidence that the ICE/CBP agents recognized their victims as legal observers, b) evidence before and after the fact that the ICE/CBP agents were pissed off at these legal observers for doing that legally protected thing, c) no evidence that the agents had any reason to fear for their lives

They got pissed at people questioning their authority and killed (or attempted to kill) them for it. That behavior absolutely must be publicly condemned and punished and an example needs to be made of all the agents who demonstrated it. We are not a free country in any meaningful sense until that happens.

I wonder how many gen x voters you could pull with a “Make America great again … like it was in the 1990s!” bit

Yep, you can tell by how the prosecutors went out of their way to bullshit about how the police were totally justified in arresting these people in the first place

“Although sufficient evidence exists to support this prosecution, considering the totality of the circumstances, we are declining to proceed,” the Cook County state’s attorney’s office said in a statement Monday.

Also how they let protesters twist in the wind for as long as possible

Woolf, of Lake Street Church of Evanston, said it shouldn’t have taken three months to dismiss the cases.

Also also,

Of the two people arrested that day whose cases were not dropped, one is charged with mob action and the other is charged with resisting a police officer.

Good to see that protesters and voters were able to force these prosecutors to do the right thing, but the whole system is still completely fucked

First of all, we shouldn’t just talk about crime rates without acknowledging that the justice system that renders those verdicts is full of shit (arc)

Louisiana is a hotbed of wrongful conviction. It has the second highest rate of known wrongful convictions in the nation. New Orleans has the highest rate in the country among cities. There have been documented exonerations in 17 Louisiana parishes.

Secondly, whatever you think about the people of Louisiana, there’s no real basis for saying they’ve changed a whole bunch recently, but what has are their laws -

Two years after Louisiana overhauled its sentencing laws to lengthen prison stays, the corrections department says it needs another $82 million in state funds for its annual operating budget.

The Clash’s “(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais”

All over people changing their votes

Along with their old codes

If Adolf Hitler flew in today

They’d send a limousine straight away

I don’t check in on the mortal world that often

Yeah that much is obvious

Everything you’ve said so far makes it sound like you think this is an unlosable fight.

Well, I do actually believe that, sort of. I think fascism given a long enough timeline inevitably sows the seeds of its own destruction and will radicalize everyone living under it to the point that they’re willing to kill and die fighting it. However, the longer that takes to happen the more people and communities that will be irrevocably destroyed by the fascists, so I definitely do agree there is a lot at stake here and we need to push this process along as quickly as it can go whether or not it’s inevitable.

Why resist if we are doomed to fail? Things are bad but this is a winnable fight with the people on our side and they’re coming our way more and more with every stupid atrocity this dipshit government commits.

At my night classes, someone brought up Epstein and a student my age said that she thought it was released a few years ago. I don’t think she’s stupid. She has like 5 kids and was attending night school for more job experience.

Yep, so much of people yelling about “stupid” voters is victim blaming people experiencing poverty and the US’s lack of social safety nets

In 2002-03, I told anyone who would listen that the Iraq war was a stupid idea, and that went so well (/s) that GWB actually won the 2004 election (unlike 2000)

By the end of 2006, almost everyone said they opposed the war and had always opposed the war, that they were outraged by Abu Ghraib and soldiers being killed by IEDs and etc.

In my experience, Americans aren’t bloodthirsty monsters, but they have crappy imaginations and memories, so they have to actually see an obviously terrible idea get played out and be completely terrible before they will recognize that it is terrible, and then they’ll tell you they knew it was terrible all along. I don’t think we’re much different than people anywhere else in the world in those regards, though.

I’d say it isn’t just similar to the KKK, it is the KKK. The Dems effectively kicked those losers out of their party by the early 1960s, but then oligarch Republicans who had been losing elections since the 1930s because the Great Depression so thoroughly discredited their laissez faire nonsense invited them in by running Barry “I think civil rights is a states rights issue” Goldwater for president, and that anti-social and destructive political coalition has been fucking shit up for everyone ever since.

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Nah, the GOP is a fucked death cult circling the drain and hemorrhaging supporters. Americans on average are about as cool as they have been in a while. It sucks that it takes seeing the ICEstapo horror show play out in front of them for months is what it took, but they’re more pro-immigrarion now than they have been in years. Say what you will about the absolute numbers, the trajectory of public opinion overall is good.

Yes.

Honestly, knowing American culture and how lots of us refuse to recognize how food prices rent healthcare etc. things that usually top issues are consequences of politics and government, one-third saying “Actually the government is my biggest problem” is a really high number

INSKEEP: OK, so Congress is close to asserting itself when it comes to the Department of Homeland Security. We just heard from Ximena a few possible provisions that might be inserted into the law. What do you want when it comes to DHS?

ROSA DELAURO: Well, as it’s been outlined, we outlined this when we did our appropriations bills several weeks ago in the House, and we gave a bill of particulars - list of particulars to the Republicans. For instance, let’s not deport or detain U.S. citizens, requiring the body-worn cameras that Ximena talked about this morning, requiring reporting on the use of force, allowing the access, which has been required by law, for members of Congress to access facilities, training standards. The training has been cut back to, you know, less than a little bit over a month, where there used to be, you know, several months, so - and requiring, yes, judicial warrants. So we have outlined some issues already. And the issue is, it’s an enforceable code of conduct, real accountability when agents break the law, prohibitions on detention of department of U.S. citizens, judicial warrants, masks off, badges on, necessary measures to keep communities safe…

Hold it, Kowalski, enhance!

For instance, let’s not deport or detain U.S. citizens, requiring the body-worn cameras that Ximena talked about this morning, requiring reporting on the use of force, allowing the access, which has been required by law, for members of Congress to access facilities, training standards.

Enhance further!

allowing the access, which has been required by law, for members of Congress to access facilities

So, you understand that there is a law that is already not being followed, and your solution is to propose another law requiring them to follow that law? Swear to god this country is beyond parody

This seems like a plausible story, except Chuck Grassley is telling it. Has this been independently verified by someone who isn’t a corrupt idiot?

“Bloodline” by Mon Rovîa and “What of Our Nature” by Haley Heynderickx and Max García Conover when I want lyrics,

Makaya McCraven’s “Techno Logic” “The People’s Mixtape” “Hidden Out” and “PopUp Shop” (4 EPs he released on the same day that are basically one inconveniently packaged double album), Sholto’s “Letting go of Forever,” and “Car Alarm” by Pat’s Soundhouse when I don’t

The fact that she’s in favor of this tells me it’s a completely worthless reform